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Thanks, Arch!!! I know you are grooving to many of the same films I am! I love this community of classic film fans! Glad to be here!

Amazon was crazy enough to extend me credit, and I was foolish enough to take them up on their offer, but at least I'm a happy fool! Recent purchases include 3 volumes of the Forgotten Noir series (great B stuff!), The Thin Man collection (more mystery than noir or gangster, but good stuff!!), The Film Noir from the Studio Vaults Collection, The Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol 1, and the 2nd volume of the Columbia Noir's! Now, if only Fox would make some sets of their noir's, I'll be further in debt! Oh and again, not so much noir, but also picked up the Val Lewton collection! I have a lot of viewing to get through!! Anyone else have some of these want to comment?

Been a while off the boards, Kyle, but happy to see you're still posting posters like crazy!!! Keep 'em coming, my friend!!! Take care! Mark

Thank you, Sewannie!! I took a bit of a break during the Oscar's plus things were kind of crazy in Jan too. Really looking forward to March, the second week is out of control!!

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > Mark, > > I agree that they aren't showing the 1930s films from the former library. My point was that TCM and the other Turner channels do not have an exclusive deal with Warners for the pre-1960 films in the former Turner film library. I know.....bummer though. I loved it when they seemed to have the unbridled ability to air anything in those libraries that Ted Turner purchased in the 80's.

I dug it, but then again, pretty much anything Broderick Crawford is in is diggable!

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *but because that may have been part of whatever deal was made when TCM sold their library, that they retain exlusive rights to air those pre 1960 classic films.* > > The Turner channels don't have exclusive rights to the former Turner film library. You guys need to extend your channel watching as films from the former Turner film library turn up on the HBO channels, the Showtime channels, Cinemax channels, (often in the very early morning hours), Encore channels, Retroplex, Multiplex and a few others. I wish Ted still owned the channel. LZ, respect you, my friend, but those channels are not showing early 30's films from the former Turner library. At best, they are showing 50's, 60's stuff, if that. I have many of those channels and they just aren't. TCM is the only hope for those of us hungry for 30's and 40's B/W films on TV and not from a DVD collection.

Here's what I'll be grooving to this coming week on TCM! Starting on Thursday, admittedly, with a noir I really enjoy of The Mick's: THE STRIP. Low budget, greasy stuff, I dig it!! Later that evening, it's a pre-code panorama with GRAND HOTEL, and especially BROADWAY MELODY OF 1929!!! Hoohah!!! Actually kinda looking forward to THE STAR, with Bette Davis herself, along with Sterling Hayden. Looks kind of cheap and tawdry to me, we'll see! Love it! Friday is John Garfield day!!! Wooohooooo!!! All of it is good stuff, but I'm personally gonna groove to NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (been a while since I saw this gem!!), and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE with the luscious Lana! And for some reason real late at night--midnight EST to be exact---we are treated to THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, with Miriam Hopkins (hotcha!) and Joel McCrea (know that will make a huge part of this community happy go lucky!!) and the absolutely drop-dead gorgeous Fay Wray---Yowza!!! Anytime is a good time for a pre-code!! I'm digging on Saturday morning to an old fave, DOA, yeah I've seen it 500 zillion times, but it's ALWAYS good! Love it! AND!!!! The return of The Bowery Boys on Saturday mornings!!! Can't wait! Kickin' it off with FIGHTING TROUBLE, which is post-Leo, should be interesting to see how that works!! I know John Payne, Randolph Scott and Maureen O'Hara fans will be grooving on Sat afternoon with TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI from those halcyon WWII days! Prison movies on Saturday night, and among them are 2 pre-codes---I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG and HELL'S HIGHWAY (really grooving to see that one!!! And a cheap-o B film, CHAIN GANG from the 50's! Rock out! I know how I'm partying on Sat night!!! Sunday will treat us to CAVALCADE from 1933 in the morning, and then a very touching film that never fails to draw tears to my eyes, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN!! And.....the return of Silent Sunday Nights, kicking it off with John Barrymore his own bad self in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE from 1920. 1920!!! Let that sink in...nowhere else baby! With all apologies to those who grooved to the Oscar's month, I'm grooving harder now that it's about over and wow, the week after this coming one will be OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! Incredible stuff!!! Groove hard, TCM fans!! I know I will!

TCM is not perfect but it's the only place where I'm gonna see films like THREE WISE GIRLS (1932), THE HALF-NAKED TRUTH, CRACKED NUTS and the films of the Bowery Boys, as well as serials (coming up!!), and lots of cool film noir like DOA! Oscar's month is a "necessary evil" that I put up with to get all the rest of the great stuff. No other channel on cable shows those films. I would rather they showed only pre-60's films, but it's not reality so I enjoy when they do it, which no one else on the dial really does, certainly not really old stuff, like silents and 30's films. Those are vacant from the TV other than TCM. Love TCM, man. It grooves!

Hibi, I'm with you! I never had AMC back when it was good, unfortunately. I got it the first time when they were already showing ads in between the movies. I was shocked to see those, but I was ok with it, as you mentioned. That was the last year they had the GREAT AMC Monsterfest with the true classics and they really went all out that particular year, they aired TONS of classic horror films during the fest! I would love it if if AMC was back the way it was before the change (or another channel like it), along with TCM. Perhaps the new digital sub-channel thing will be where that happens? Probably not commercial free though, unfortunately. Oh I forgot, I also had TNT when they showed classic films! I used to love that, even with the ads. In fact, I sometimes wish TCM would utilize some of that style, when they celebrated a birthday during the day for example, you always knew it because they'd have some little interstitial about it in between the ad breaks. Unfortunately my cable service didn't pick up TCM until the middle 2000's, so I also missed many of the great years of this channel. But I still dig it (not too much into this year's Oscar's Month, but hey, it gets better next month!).

> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote} > It looks as if Warner Brothers will be releasing 1933's Night Flight on 6/7/11. This is a great movie with John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Lionel Barrymore, and Myrna Loy. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024381/ Great news!!! It's a groovy film!!

I ended up getting the MEET JOHN DOE DVD, and I love it!!! I know I said I was going to pass because of the print quality, but it's not bad, plus it has the great commentary and lots of extras! I'm totally digging it!

Thanks to a great friend, I have the joy of this DVD, and I love it! I realize that the print is not the greatest, but it's fine enough and the commentary is awesome, and love it for all the extras, including the commentary and the bonus disc of documentaries! One of my all time favorite films and I have it! Awesome! And thanks to TCM for keeping this film alive through many, many airings!

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > Yep, Flaxy was definitely a "B-girl!" > > > When I said this, it had nothing to do with "B pictures." The term "B-girl" probably comes from "bar girl." A "B-girl" is a girl who is basically a shill, to get a man to spend money on her, so the establishment where she works makes money. So, I was commenting on Flaxy's character, not the quality of the picture. It's a good, tough little film. I'm for it! I like that! I also felt it had a "B-movie" feel, and I'm not into classification or all that, just the way it "felt" to me, style, etc. I don't mean that in a disparaging way because I happen to dig B films! And B-girls too, for that matter! Especially those on par with Flaxy!

I totally dig watching the classic programs on THIS and Retro TV! I love how they present them, with very few ads, and you get to see the entire program, including the ending credits, as some here have mentioned! Groovy!

Happy Anniversary, Fred!!! Here's to many more!

I really dig FLAXY MARTIN! Solid stuff, on a sort of dingy B level, at least I thought so!

> {quote:title=kimpunkrock wrote:}{quote} > thanks for the tip on the WC Fields sets! I got vol 1 for xmas! I'll second that, I also got Vol 1, what a great price!!

BIG time looking forward to this, Fred!!! Thank you for pointing it out! Louise Brooks...OMG!

OMG, this schedule is out of control!!!!! Thank you, TCM for keeping the faith!!! TCM rocks the house!

Oh yes, great stuff!!! I have been sort of out of touch with the board for the past couple weeks, due to some personal things, but have been trying to watch stuff like this when I can! And really looking forward to this one, been a LONG time since I've seen it! AWESOME film!

Man, this film seems to be available nowhere on DVD! Seems like it's primed for a release!!

I thought it totally rocked!!!! Loved every second of it!!! And I agree, a pristine print, wow!!! As for Harlow in SCARFACE??!! Wow, I'm going to watch that this morning and will watch for it!

Great stuff, thanks, Fred!!! Can't wait for tonight's lineup! GREAT stuff in prime time!

Very groovy!!!! All of them are great! Especially looking forward to the first one, as I've not seen it before! And SCARFACE which only airs rarely.